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Published papers

 

"Touched by Touching", in Carnal Hermeneutics, ed Kearney and Treanor, Fordham University Press, 2015

 

“The Truth About Animals” (in Turkish), Cogito Journal, Volume 80, 2015, Yapı ve Kredi Press, Istanbul

 

“Derrida Vert”, in A Decade After Derrida: Oxford Literary Review. Volume 36, Issue 2, 2014

 

"Comment ne pas manger--Deconstruction and Humanism" trans into Italian, Animot journal, Turin, Italy 2014

 

“My Place in the Sun”, in Interpreting Nature, ed. Forrest Clingerman, et al. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013

 

“If a cat could talk,” London: Aeon, July 2013

 

“The Lure of the Writer’s Cabin”, New York Times (Opinionator), December 2012

 

“Toxicity and Transcendence: Two Faces of the Human”, Angelaki 16, no.4, 2011

 

David Wood, “Landschaftskunst und Angel Spiral freilegen“, in: Antje Kapust/Bernhard Waldenfels (Hg.), Kunst, Bild, Wahrnehmung, Blick. Merleau-Ponty zum Hundertsten, München 2010, S. 242-248 (Wilhelm Fink Verlag)

 

“Things at the Edge of the World”, in Phenomenologies of the Stranger, eds. Kascha Semonovitch Snavely and Richard Kearney, New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.

 

“Spiritual Jazz: Religious Resources for a Change of Climate” (with Beth Conklin), Humanities Research Network, Nov 2010 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1707088

 

“Deconstruction, Ethics and Politics: Derrida, Levinas and the Political Implications of Deconstruction”, discussion with Simon Critchley, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, July 1992 [British Library archived sound recording, C95/916; archived 2010]

 

“Mirror Infractions in the Yucatan (After Robert Smithson)”, in Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Intellect Arts and Creative Media Collection, Metropolitan University, London, 2010

 

Entry in LAND/ART New Mexico, introduction by Bill Gilbert and Kathleen Shields, Radius Books, 2010.

 

“A word for sculpture”, Sculpture Journal vol.18.2 Autumn/Winter 2009

 

“Derrida and deconstruction”, in The Humanities Today, ed. Yubraj Aryal, Nepal: Sunlight Publication, 2008

 

“Thinking Landscape Art: Unfolding Angel Spiral”, in Antje Kapust / Bernhard Waldenfels eds., Kunst. Bild. Wahrnehmung. Blick: Merleau-Ponty zum

Hundertsten, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2008.

 

“Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction”, in Ecosophy, ed. Lauren Kearns and Catherine Keller, Fordham University Press, 2007

 

“Topologies of Transcendence”, in Transcendence and Beyond, ed. Jack Caputo and Michael Scanlon, Indiana University Press, 2007

 

“Art and Earth”, Visual Intelligence and the Sense of Art Catalogue, pp.3-5, CSU Stanislaus, November 2006\

 

 “On Being Haunted by the Future”, Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 36, 2006

 

“A walk in the woods”, Sculpture Journal, volume 15.1 [2006]

 

“On the Way to Econstruction”, Environmental Philosophy, Spring 2006, Vol 3, No 1 [this is an abbreviated version of “Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction”]

 

“Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Embodying Transformation” for Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, edited Jim Hatley, Janice McLane and Chris Diem, Duquesne University Press, 2006

 

“Our Uncanny Arboreality” translated into Japanese in the journal Interdisziplinaere Phaenomenologie, Kyoto, Spring 2006

 

“Distance in Dwelling”, Cogito (Journal of Art and Philosophy), Istanbul, Turkey, translated into Turkish by Refik Guremen, 2006

 

“Some Questions for My Levinasian Friends” in Addressing Levinas, ed. E. Nelson et. al., Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005.

 

“Greening Vanderbilt: Apres le Deluge”, Orbis, Vanderbilt, October 2005

 

“Jacques Derrida: A Different World”, Radical Philosophy, 129, Jan/Feb 2005

 

“David Wood Remembers Jacques Derrida”, Vanderbilt Register, Oct 25 2004

 

“Trees and Truth”, in Rethinking Nature, ed. Robert Frodeman, Indiana University Press, 2004

 

“Thinking with Cats”, in Animal Philosophy, ed. Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco, Continuum, 2004

 

“Connections in Time: Notes on the Kuusiluoto Island Chronopod”, Framework: The Finnish Art Review, Helsinki, 2004

 

 “Double Trouble: Narrative Imagination as a Carnival Dragon", in Transversing the Imaginary, edited Peter Gratton and John Manoussakis, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004

 

NEW VERSION: "What is Eco-Phenomenology?" in Michael E Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, John Clark, Irene J. Klaver, and Karen Warren, Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Social Ecology, [fourth edition] (New York: Prentice-Hall, 2004).

 

"What is Eco-Phenomenology?" in Research in Phenomenology, 2001 and (extended version) in Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, ed. Ted Toadvine and Charles Brown. Binghamton: SUNY, 2003

 

Now: an event / Breath trap, (with Hallsten, J., Johansson, H, Wirkkala, M) Kuusiluoto, Helsinki, 2003

 

“Tales of Innocence and Experience: Kierkegaard’s Spiritual Accountancy”, in The New Kierkegaard, ed. Elsebet Jegstrup, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003

 

“Glimpses of Being in Dasein’s Development”, contretemps. Vol 3, 2002

 

"Heidegger and the Responsibilities of Reading", in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, ed. Francois Raffoul and David Pettigrew, Binghamton: SUNY, 2002

 

“Derrida and the Paradoxes of Reflection” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 11, no. 3 [1980], reprinted as chapter 28. of Derrida: Critical Assessments, ed. Len Lawlor and Zeynep Direk, London: Routledge, 2002.

 

"Interpretando la Narrativa" in Con Paul Ricoeur: indagaciones hermeneuticas, ed. Mario J. Valdes y otros, Caracas: Monte Avila, 2000

 

"Die Philosophie der Gewalt/Die Gewalt der Philosophie", in Gewalt, Strukturen, Formen, Reprasentationen, ed. Mihran Dabag, Antje Kapust, Kristin Platt. Munich: Fink Verlag, 2000

 

"Time-shelters: an essay in the poetics of time", in Time and the Instant, ed. Robin Durie and David Webb, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000

 

"Ethos Beyond Ethics: Remarks on Charles Scott”, Research in Phenomenology, vol. XXX, 2000

 

 “Comment ne pas manger: Derrida and Humanism” in The Animal as Other ed. Peter Steeves, SUNY Press, 1999

 

“Notes towards a Deconstructive Phenomenology” in JBSP (Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology), issue editor Simon Critchley, 1998

 

“The Experience of Ethics” in Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy, ed. Kearney and Dooley, London: Routledge, 1998

 

 “Kierkegaard, God and the Economy of Thinking”, in Jonathan Ree (ed.) A Kierkegaard Reader, Blackwell, 1997

 

“Responsibility reinscribed (and how)”, in Pli (Warwick Journal of Philosophy) vol. 6, Summer 1997.

 

“Much Obliged” in Philosophy Today Spring 97 pp.135-140

 

"Identity and Violence" in On the Work of Edward Said: Cultural Differences and the Gravity of History ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, Benita Parry, Judith Squires  London and New York, Lawrence, 1997

 

"The Actualization of Philosophy and the Logic of Geist", in Of Derrida, Heidegger and Spirit, ed. David Wood, Northwestern University Press, 1993

 

"Reading Derrida: An Introduction" in Derrida: A Critical Reader, ed. David Wood, Blackwell, 1992.

 

"Reiterating the Temporal: Heidegger and Destiny" in Reading Heidegger: Commemorations, edited by John Sallis, (Bloomington: Indiana, 1992).

 

"Interpreting Narrative" introductory essay to On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation ed. D.C.Wood (London: Routledge, 1992). Translated by Marie-José Minassian as "Interpréter le Récit" in L'Ane: Le Magazine Freudien, Jan-March 1992 No. 49.

 

"Political Openings: Heidegger 1933-34" in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New School for Social Research, 1991.

 

"Thinking Poetic Writing", in D.C.Wood (ed.) Philosophers' Poets, Routledge, 1990.

 

"Editing the Future" in Writing the Future, ed. D.C.Wood, (London: Routledge, 1990)

 

"The Possibility of Literary Deconstruction", in H. J. Silverman and G. A. Aylesworth (eds.) The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and its Differences, State University of New York Press, 1990, 53-60.

 

"Translating the Differences: The Future of Continental Philosophy," in The Future of Continental Philosophy and the Politics of Difference ed. H. J. Silverman (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).

 

"Escher and Calvino: Thinking Eccentrically about Time" in Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, ed. A.E.Benjamin, (London: Academy Editions, 1989).

 

"Beyond Deconstruction?" in Contemporary French Philosophy ed. A. Phillips Griffiths, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

 

"Heidegger after Derrida" in Research in Phenomenology 17, 1987.

 

"Following Derrida" in Deconstruction and Philosophy: the Texts of Jacques Derrida, ed. J. Sallis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

 

"From Another Past" in Descriptions, ed. D. Ihde and H. J. Silverman (New York: SUNY Press, 1985).

 

"Derrida and the Problem of Strategy" [in Derrida and Differance, above].

 

"Time and the Sign" JBSP 13, no. 2 [May 1982]: pp. 143-53.

 

"Time and Interpretation" in Time and Metaphysics, ed. D. C. Wood and R. Bernasconi [Warwick: Parousia Press, 1982].

 

"Metametaphysical Textuality" in Heidegger and Language, ed. D.C.Wood [Warwick: Parousia Press, 1981].

 

"Prolegomena to a New Theory of Time"  Research in Phenomenology 10, [1980]: pp. 177-191.

 

"Style and Strategy  at the limits of Philosophy" The Monist 63, no. 4 [Oct 1980]: pp. 494-511.

 

"Derrida and the Paradoxes of Reflection" JBSP 11, no. 3, [Oct 1980]: pp. 225-238.

 

"Suicide as Instrument and Expression" in Suicide: the Philosophical Issues, ed. Battin and Mayo [New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980]: pp. 151-160.

 

"Introduction to Derrida" in Radical Philosophy, Spring 1979; reprinted in Radical Philosophy Reader, ed. Edgeley and Osborne, [London: Verso, 1985].

 

"Honesty" in Philosophy and Personal Relations ed. A.C.R.G.Montefiore [London: RKP, 1973].

"Strategies" in Animal, Men and Morals ed. Godlovitch and Harris, [London: Gollanz, 1971].

 

Interviews (of others)

 

"Interview with Vattimo" (with David Webb): Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 2, no. 2 October 1989

 

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